Greetings from the HRCC!
We trust that everyone who traveled to St Louis last week for Heartland's 9th Annual Meeting made it home safely and with no delays. Yet another great Heartland annual meeting is complete and it would not have been a success without the hard work of the planning committee or the information from the presenters.

Speaker Slides
Speaker presentations and handouts from the meeting are now available on the Heartland website: www.heartlandcollaborative.org<http://www.heartlandcollaborative.org> along with the evaluation summary of the meeting.

Work Groups and Heartland ListServe
If this was your first Heartland Collaborative meeting, then we extend a warm welcome and we hope you will continue to participate! If you are interested in joining one of our work groups (Clinical Services, EHDI or Newborn Screening) or receiving notices from our listServe, please contact Shona Whitehead ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>).

Reimbursement
For those eligible for reimbursement (Advisory Board members, Advocates and Core Work Group members), please mail your original receipts to:
Dustin Foster
Arkansas Children's Hospital
Peds Genetics, Slot 512-22
Little Rock, AR 72202
Reimbursement questions should be directed to Dustin Foster ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or 501-364-2915).

An official decision has not yet been made for the date or site for Heartland's 10th Annual Meeting...so stay tuned!

This year's meeting was the first of many milestones in this new five-year funding cycle. Keep up the great work!

Thanks,

Brad Schaefer, MD
Project Co-Director
Heartland Genetics & Newborn Screening Collaborative
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Klaas Wierenga, MD
Project Co-Director
Heartland Genetics & Newborn Screening Collaborative
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Lori Williamson Dean, MS, CGC, LGC
Project Manager
Heartland Genetics & Newborn Screening Collaborative
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Shona Whitehead
Asst. Project Manager
Heartland Genetics & Newborn Screening Collaborative
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Dustin Foster
Adminstrative Assistant
Heartland Genetics & Newborn Screening Collaborative
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Melanie Baxter, ScM, CGC
Project Coordinator
Heartland Genetics & Newborn Screening Collaborative